Do you love classic management games? Building a club across many matchdays, discovering talent, creating training plans, keeping the finances under control, and watching a thrown together squad slowly grow into a top team?
Then welcome to Seven Rukks: Pit, Profit & Glory.
Here you take control of a team in a fantasy sports league where good management matters at least as much as what happens on the field. The only difference is that the consequences can occasionally be a little more drastic than in other sports.
Build your team
Assemble your squad and find the right players for your team. Every position has different requirements, and every race comes with its own strengths and limitations.
But numbers do not tell the whole story. Alongside visible abilities, every player also has hidden traits that influence their actual performance and behavior. What looks like a bargain may develop into a star player, or turn out to be an expensive mistake.
At the Slave Market, you buy and sell players, compare candidates with your existing squad, and keep an eye out for exceptional talent. Some offers are predictable. Others are a gamble.
Develop your players
Set individual training priorities and decide how hard you want to push your players.
More intense training can lead to faster progress, but an exhausted or injured player will not help you much on the next matchday. Visible abilities can be improved deliberately, while hidden traits require you to judge your players through their performances and training reports.
Manage more than just a team
A successful manager has more to worry about than the starting lineup.
Invest in your infrastructure and develop your club. Upgrade your team quarters, training ground, and other facilities to create better long term conditions for your squad.
Your stadium can grow as well. Increase spectator capacity, improve the stands, pitch, and moat facilities, and create additional advertising space. Even the type of playing surface can affect your home matches. A well maintained pitch benefits different players than muddy or hard ground.
Set ticket prices, keep an eye on maintenance costs and stadium revenue, and gradually turn your home ground into an arena worthy of your sporting ambitions.
Keep your finances under control
Sporting success alone does not pay the bills.
Manage ongoing expenses, take out loans when necessary, or invest surplus capital. If you are willing to take greater risks, there are opportunities for that too, with correspondingly pleasant or unpleasant consequences.
At the Trading House, you can buy and store merchandise, then sell it at prices you set yourself. Demand, sporting success, and your pricing strategy determine whether business thrives or your warehouses stay full.
And of course, there is also a Betting Office. Nobody ever said a respectable sports manager had to make money from sport alone.
Not every decision has to be sporting
Sometimes you need to be a good coach. Sometimes a good businessman. And sometimes a visit to the Tavern might help.
There you will find opportunities that would probably trigger a parliamentary inquiry in a conventional sports management game: team parties, dubious offers, brawls, and ways to influence upcoming matches.
In Seven Rukks: Pit, Profit & Glory, your lineup is not the only thing that determines how a matchday ends.
And then comes matchday
Two teams. Five players on the field per side. Seven Rukks.
A throw into the opponent's scoring barrel earns one point.
A jump earns two points.
The problem? Anyone who jumps is guaranteed to land in the moat.
And unpleasant surprises are waiting down there. Your team may have gained two points, but you may also have lost one of your best players.
Fouls, fights, injuries, and permanent deaths are just as much a part of the sport as passes, breakthroughs, and tactical decisions. A single match can completely overturn your carefully planned season within minutes.
The season is yours
After every match come the results, league table, and the next management phase. Income and expenses are calculated, training results are evaluated, and new events may disrupt your plans. Then the cycle begins again:
Analyze. Decide. Invest. Select. Play. Survive.
Features
Lead your own fantasy sports club through a full league campaign.
Build a squad from different races with individual strengths, weaknesses, and hidden traits.
Buy, sell, and discover players across different markets.
Train your squad individually and decide how to balance development and workload.
Plan your lineup and tactics for defense and attack.
Develop your stadium with new stands, improved playing surfaces, moat facilities, and advertising space.
Expand your infrastructure and improve your team quarters, training ground, and other facilities.
Manage your finances through income, ongoing costs, loans, and investments.
Trade merchandise and react to demand and sporting success.
Bet on matchdays and use risky opportunities to earn additional money.
Use questionable methods away from the field when sporting means are not enough.
Experience fully simulated matches with throws, jumps, tackles, fouls, and fights.
Live with the consequences of your decisions: injuries and death can permanently change your squad.
Follow matchdays, fixtures, and league tables throughout your season.
Play alone or locally against your friends.
Seven Rukks: Pit, Profit & Glory combines the long term planning of classic sports management games with fantasy, dark humor, and a sport where one brave move can earn you two points and a new entry on the transfer market at the same time.